It feels like with the many shadows (which made the scene particularly nice, I should think) your meter suggested you have to expose for longer than the bright parts really needed. So the sunlit parts, those that looked fine to you at first, got overexposed.
I like 2, for example, with the candle and the old scales (I think they are) in the background. But the very wood that you wanted to capture is blown out. You ought to have underexposed your pic (or underexposed even MORE than you maybe already did).